Usually I order most of my garden seeds for the year in January or February. A few weeks later I put together milk jug greenhouses. These easy, miniature greenhouses help give seedlings a jump start on the growing season. You can make them any time before your final frost date. This post will explain how […]

The holidays are over and the New Year’s Day spirit is slowly waning. You realize it’s January and you have at least two to three more months of life in a frozen tundra. Time to order free garden catalogs! If you aren’t already on mailing lists for free garden catalogs, January is my favorite time […]

It’s the dead of winter and nobody is thinking about gardening. Wrong! If you have an friend who is a gardener on your wish list, I can guarantee they are thinking about their garden-year round. They might still be harvesting lettuce in a cold frame, flipping through garden seed catalogs or reading up on gardening […]

Most people know garlic as garlic. It was the same for me, until I discovered there are two types of garlic, softneck garlic and hardneck garlic. Now, planting hardneck garlic in my home garden is one of my favorite fall activities. I prefer planting hardneck garlic for several reasons, one being this variety offers an […]

One of my favorite parts of gardening is having an herb garden. In my experience, herbs are easy to grow, require little care and many are perennials that come back year after year. There are literally hundreds of varieties of herbs, and because of this, it can be a little overwhelming knowing where to start when planning […]